[Corpora-List] Call for papers-Fourth Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication Nov 15-16 2012

[Costanza Navarretta]

Call for Papers
The Fourth Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication
University of Gothenburg, November 15-16, 2012
The 4th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines who study multimodality in human communication as well as human-computer interaction.
The multimodal communication symposium is organized by the SCCIIL Interdisciplinary research centre and Division for Communication and Cognition at the Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg and the NOMCO (Multimodal Corpora for the Nordic Countries) NORDCORP project (www.http://sskkii.gu.se/nomco/<http://www.http:/sskkii.gu.se/nomco/>). The invited lecturers have been chosen as representing different aspects of multimodal communication relevant for researchers in the Nordic countries.
 Human communication is naturally multimodal, involving the interaction of visual, auditory and other sensory modalities in using speech, facial expressions, head movements, hand gestures and body postures.  Multimodal communication is an area of research which is growing rapidly. One reason for this is the increased interest in embodied and situated communication - how humans interact with each other using different modalities, as well as how different artefacts in the communicative activity affect the interaction and how humans and animals interact, for example in riding therapy. Work places as well as school environments, health care and other services increasingly involve complex multimodal communication. The development in mobile media, robotics etc. makes new multimodal technical solutions to communicative challenges possible while at the same creating new challenges for communication research.
 The past two decades have witnessed numerous initiatives and research efforts to improve the state of the art concerning the way in which multimodal communication can be described in its own right, as well as modelled and taken advantage of in computer systems. Such efforts include i.a.  the collection and annotation of multimodal data, the development of methods for capture and interpretation of multimodal behaviour, and for modelling and generation of multimodal data.
 The symposium continues a tradition, established by the Swedish Symposia on Multimodal Communication held in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000, and continued by the two Nordic Symposia on Multimodal Communication held in 2003 and 2005,  the workshop held in Odense in 2009 and the Third Nordic Symposium in Multimodal Communication in Helsinki 2011.
 The symposium will be of interest to anyone studying multimodal communication. Although it hopes to provide a picture of the current state-of-the-art of multimodal research in the Nordic countries, researchers from outside of the Nordic region are most welcome.
 Invited speakers
 Karl Grammer
Dirk Heylen
Michael Kipp
Maja Pantic
Daniel Västfljäll
Topics
Topics addressed in the symposium cover all aspects of multimodal communication, such as:
* Speech and gestures in human communication
* Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour
* Multimodality aspects of language acquisition
* Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents
* Multimodal human-animal communication
* Multimodal health communication
* Multimodal communication, communication disorders and communication support (AAC)
* Multimodal dialogue systems
* Multimodal corpora
* Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora
* Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities
* Modality fusion
* Motion capture
* Eye-gaze recognition
* Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data
* Evaluation methods for multimodal systems
Documentation and dissemination
The conference proceedings will be published online, containing peer reviewed abstract of 1-2 pages. They will be distributed at the conference. A selection of papers for a special issue of a relevant journal will be discussed at the symposium.
Organizing committee
Jens Allwood
Elisabeth Ahlsén
Patrizia Paggio
Costanza Navarretta
Kristiina Jokinen
 Program committee
Nick Campbell
Jens Edlund
Joakim Gustafsson
Pentti Haddington
Bart Jongejan
Arne Jönsson
Matthias Rehm
Alexandra Weilenman
Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström
Mikael Jensen
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